SUCCESSION OF LOGAN

No. 11042.

384 So.2d 830 (1980)

SUCCESSION of Mrs. Ora Nelms LOGAN, also known as Mrs. Ora Logan Shaffer.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 3, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ivor A. Trapolin, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Otto B. Schoenfeld, Denechaud & Denechaud, New Orleans, for defendants-appellees.

Before GULOTTA, SCHOTT and CHEHARDY, JJ.


SCHOTT, Judge.

The principal issue in this case is the trial court's interpretation of the following clause in decedent's will:

"Item II. I wish a trust fund to be formed of all my holdings (not mentioned in this) for Caroline who is to receive interest annually, the Whitney Bank and a lawyer she appoints to service."

Plaintiffs, who are the nephews and nieces of decedent who died in 1969, contend that "Caroline," who died in 1977, was to be the income...

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